Score
A score is the original music written to accompany a film, television show or video game, usually instrumental and composed to fit the pictures.
Scores follow the action on screen, using recurring themes for characters and ideas and changes of mood to support each scene. The classic sound is a symphony orchestra, a tradition set in Hollywood in the 1930s, but modern scores also use synthesizers, electronics, choirs and small ensembles. A score differs from a soundtrack of songs in that it is composed specially for the production and rarely has a singer.
Artists it is known for: John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone.
- Family
- Classical & Soundtrack
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A use, not a style
- From
- Hollywood, 1930s
- Also called
- film score, film music, original score
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have score among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Score artists
Hans Zimmer
Arcane
Ludwig Göransson
John Williams
Danny Elfman
Justin Hurwitz
Michael Giacchino
Howard Shore
Ramin Djawadi
Daniel Pemberton
The score artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.